Description |
xii, 370 pages : map ; 24 cm |
Contents |
Prologue -- The tree -- Eden -- Desert -- The bird -- The forest -- The traditional owners -- The pioneer -- Timber -- Cream -- Bloody botanists -- Bananas -- Nuts -- The inhabitants: non-furry -- The inhabitants: furry -- Epilogue |
Summary |
One bright day in December 2001, sixty-two-year-old Germaine Greer found herself confronted by an irresistible challenge in the shape of sixty hectares of dairy farm, one of many in south-east Queensland that, after a century of logging, clearing and downright devastation, had been abandoned to their fate |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [344]-353) and index |
Subject |
Greer, Germaine, 1939-
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Greer, Germaine, 1939- -- Homes and haunts -- Australia -- Queensland, South East.
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Greer, Germaine, 1939-
author -- Biography.
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Greer, Germaine, 1939-
author -- Homes and haunts -- Australia -- Queensland, South East.
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Rain forests -- Conservation and restoration -- Australia -- Queensland, South East.
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Rain forests -- Australia -- Queensland, South East.
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Rain forests -- Australia -- Queensland, South East.
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SUBJECT |
Numinbah Valley (Qld.)
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Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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ISBN |
9781408846711 (hbk.) |
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